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Alien School Invasion and Reformers With Erased Memories

October 31, 2020 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

They don’t recall the alien invasion, or recognize those who had part in it. The school reformers and their friends condemn public schools, mortified by senior NAEP scores (how could those teachers not teach reading?). They’ve forgotten the rotten changes to remake public schools. Parents once liked their public schools, and few were interested in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Houston Special Education Services, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Michigan School Reform, NAEP scores, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), Race to the Top (RTTT)

How NCLB is Still Destroying Reading for Children 

February 12, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 19 Comments

NCLB was a bi-partisan bill signed into law in 2002 during the Bush administration’s push for school reform. We now recognize how punitive the bill was, its troubling use of one-size-fits-all standardized testing to demonize and close public schools, the punitive AYP and “highly qualified” teacher credentialing changes, the unrealistic predictions that all children would […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Defending the Early Years, developmental disabilities, Early Childhood, Kindergarten is the New First Grade, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), phonics, Picture Books, Reading in Kindergarten, Setting Children Up to Hate Reading, standardized testing, Teaching reading, The Alliance for Childhood, Valerie Strauss The Answer Sheet

What’s Individualized about the IEP and ESSA?

July 5, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 9 Comments

I am reviving an old post that raises questions about the relevancy of the Individualized Educational Plan when it is written according to the general grade level content  standards. If everyone is expected to be alike, how important is the IEP? Under the Every Student Succeeds Act almost all students with disabilities must follow the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Common Core, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Individual Educational Plans (IEPs), No Child Left Behind (NCLB), PL 94-142, standards

Hoverboards and the Every Student Succeeds Act

December 10, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 5 Comments

Last night on NBC News, I waited to hear about the Senate’s overwhelming passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act. Perhaps I missed it, or they are waiting to say something about it now that President Obama has signed the bill into law. Instead, one of the news items Lester Holt told us about involved […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bipartisan Agreement, charter schools, Common Core, Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA), Governors, Local School Districts, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), School Choice, vouchers

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